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Laravel Development

Conventional Laravel, maintainable by any Laravel developer.

Laravel is the framework most of our backend work is built on. It supplies the parts every business application needs — migrations, an ORM, authentication, queues, scheduling, caching, mail and a strong testing setup — so the project starts on the domain rather than on infrastructure.

Its real advantage is convention. Two Laravel applications written by different teams look substantially alike, which is what makes handover realistic and hiring straightforward.

We build new Laravel applications, take over existing ones, and upgrade codebases that have fallen several major versions behind and become risky to touch.

At a glance

Typical stack: Laravel PHP Livewire MySQL Redis Docker
Engagement: Fixed scope, dedicated team, or staff augmentation

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The problem

What this solves

Laravel makes it easy to write code quickly, which also makes it easy to write code that works and cannot be maintained. The recognisable symptoms are controllers holding business logic, models that know about HTTP, no tests around the paths that matter, and a set of local conventions that only the original author understands.

The other common state is an application stuck several versions behind. Each skipped release makes the next upgrade larger, until security patches stop arriving and the upgrade has become a project nobody wants to start.

Logic in controllers

Business rules spread through HTTP handlers, so they cannot be tested or reused.
Local conventions nobody else knows

A bespoke architecture means every new developer needs the original author to explain it.
Several versions behind

Security patches no longer apply, and each skipped release makes the eventual upgrade larger.
N+1 queries under real data

Eager loading missed in places that were fine in development and are not in production.

Our approach

How we go about it

We keep to framework conventions rather than inventing a local architecture. Business logic lives in services and models, controllers stay thin, and the structure is the one any Laravel developer already recognises. Cleverness in structure is a cost paid by everyone who reads the code afterwards.

Tests cover the paths where being wrong costs something — authentication, authorisation, money, and anything that writes to another system — and run against a real database rather than an in-memory substitute, because that is where the differences bite.

For upgrades we work incrementally: get the test suite green first, then move one major version at a time with the application deployable at every step. Attempting several versions in one change makes the failures impossible to attribute.

Capabilities

What is included

Greenfield Laravel application development
Laravel version upgrades and modernisation
Codebase audits and refactoring
Queue, scheduling and background job architecture
API development with versioning and rate limiting
Test suite and CI pipeline setup

Outcomes

What changes for you

Conventional structure

Any Laravel developer can work on it without a handover session.
Tested where it matters

Coverage on auth, permissions, payments and integrations, run against a real database.
Upgradable

Dependencies kept current so security patches remain a routine update rather than a project.
Queries that hold up

Lazy loading treated as an error in development, so N+1 problems surface before production does.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about laravel development.

Can you take over an existing Laravel project?

Yes, and it usually starts with a short assessment: reading the code, running it locally, checking dependency versions and deployment, and writing down what we find. You get that assessment regardless of whether you continue with us, because you cannot decide what to do next without an honest picture of the current state.

How far behind is too far to upgrade?

Rarely too far, but the cost rises sharply with distance. The main variable is test coverage: with a reasonable suite, upgrading is methodical. With none, the first step is adding tests around the critical paths so there is a way to tell whether the upgrade broke something. That is worth doing on its own merits.

Do you use Livewire or a separate front end?

Livewire for server-rendered applications where the interactivity is targeted, which covers most admin panels, portals and business applications and avoids shipping a large bundle. A separate front end where the product genuinely has heavy client-side state. Both are reasonable; picking the wrong one costs more than either choice does.

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